Concorde Jet Undergoing $22 Million Recommission

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6-05-2010 @ 6:05PM

Mike Bentley said...

Just for the record, during the 70's (?) Boeing did have the SST (Super Sonic Transport) project going. Its plane resembled the Concorde in many ways but didn't get off the drawing board - costs I think. The technology was pretty solid, but Boeing has to make money. French and British manufacturers (and airlines) were tied together governmentally way back then, and still are with the Airbus.

Just the musings of an old (and getting older) Seattleite

Mike

6-05-2010 @ 8:02PM

B.P. Dumas said...

Unfortunately funding for the Boeing SST program was killed before even a prototype was built and could be test flown, there was a historical milestone of the program however. The General Electric GE4 turbojet engine was produced and tested experimentally and produced 73,000 lbs of thrust, it was the most powerful jet engine ever made up to that point.
Unfortunately the 1973 fuel crisis would have killed the program, but it would have been nice to see a prototype built and flown.
I'm sure it would be in a museum today and that would be something.
It'd be interested to really know if the GE4 engine program really did die with the SST or whether it was covertly produced for a Black aircraft program.
I'm thinking about the rumored "Blackstar" aircraft. GE also made the engines in the experimental North American XB-70 mach 3 capable supersonic bomber and quite a number of engines were actually made.
Makes you wonder where those engines ended up.

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